Team-based approach to care may help improve outcomes in older patients with depression, chronic disease.The Los Angeles Times (12/30, Brown) reports, "Research published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that coordinating care to manage depression and chronic illness -- together, at the same time -- produces better outcomes for patients."
WebMD (12/29, Boyles) reported that "a team-based approach to managing care could improve outcomes and potentially save taxpayers billions" while helping the older people with diabetes, heart disease, and depression. In a study including 214 older "patients with poorly managed diabetes and/or heart disease, randomly assigned to either standard care or the collaborative care intervention, called TEAMcare," researchers found that "patients who worked with the nurse coaches had less depression and better control of their diabetes and heart disease risk factors than patients who got standard care."
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